Telephone system:general assessment: inadequate; requires considerable expansion and modernization; teledensity of 10 main lines per 100 persons is low (2002)
domestic: the majority of telephones are in Baku and other industrial centers - about 700 villages still without public telephone service; satellite service connects Baku to a modern switch in its exclave of Naxcivan
international: country code - 994; the old Soviet system of cable and microwave is still serviceable; satellite earth stations - 2 (2005)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 10, FM 17, shortwave 1 (1998)

Television broadcast stations:
2 (1997)

Internet country code:
.az

Internet hosts:
460 (2005)

Internet users:
408,000 (2005)

NOTE: The information regarding Azerbaijan on this page is re-published from the 2006 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Azerbaijan Communications 2006 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Azerbaijan Communications 2006 should be addressed to the CIA.